Shirley Jones Signed May 21, 1957 April Love Movie Script w/ Pat Boone

Description: Shirley Jones Signed May 21, 1957 Movie Script April Love w/ Pat Boone 8.5” x 11” 106 Pages Signed To Steve Shirley Jones April Love is an American musical film directed by Henry Levin and produced by David Weisbart, based on the novel Phantom Filly by George Agnew Chamberlain (New York City, 1941). Photographed in CinemaScope and DeLuxe Color by Wilfred M. Cline, it was the fourth most popular movie of 1957 and stars Pat Boone, Shirley Jones, Arthur O'Connell, Dolores Michaels, Matt Crowley, Jeanette Nolan and Bradford Jackson. April Love Directed byHenry Levin Written byGeorge Agnew Chamberlain (novel) Winston Miller Produced byDavid Weisbart StarringPat Boone Shirley Jones Dolores Michaels CinematographyWilfred M. Cline Edited byWilliam B. Murphy Music bySammy Fain Alfred Newman Production company 20th Century-Fox Distributed by20th Century-Fox Release date November 27, 1957 Running time97 minutes CountryUnited States LanguageEnglish Budget$1,425,000 Box office$3.7 million (US and Canada rentals) The title song, sung by Boone, went to number one on the Billboard Chart in December 1957 and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song. Shirley Mae Jones (born March 31, 1934) is an American actress and singer. In her six decades in show business, she has starred as wholesome characters in a number of musical films, such as Oklahoma! (1955), Carousel (1956), April Love (1957) and The Music Man (1962). She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing a vengeful prostitute in Elmer Gantry (1960). She played the lead role of Shirley Partridge, the widowed mother of five children, in the musical situation-comedy television series The Partridge Family (1970–1974), which co-starred her real-life stepson, David Cassidy, son of Jack Cassidy. Shirley Jones Jones in the 1970s BornShirley Mae Jones March 31, 1934 (age 90) Charleroi, Pennsylvania, U.S. Occupations Actress & Singer Years active1950–present Spouses Jack Cassidy (m. 1956; div. 1975) Marty Ingels (m. 1977; died 2015) Children3, including Shaun and Patrick Musical career Genres Pop traditional pop gospel Instrument(s)Vocals Labels Columbia RCA Victor Bell A&M Diadem Stage Door Encore Music Presents Her first audition was for an open bi-weekly casting call held by John Fearnley, casting director for Rodgers and Hammerstein and their various musicals. At the time, Jones had never heard of Rodgers and Hammerstein. Fearnley was so impressed, he ran across the street to fetch Richard Rodgers, who was rehearsing with an orchestra for an upcoming musical. Rodgers then called Oscar Hammerstein at home. The two saw great potential in Jones. She became the first and only singer to be put under personal contract with the songwriters. They first cast her in a minor role in South Pacific. For her second Broadway show, Me and Juliet, she started as a chorus girl, and then an understudy for the lead role, earning rave reviews in Chicago. Movie actress of the 1950s and 1960s Jones impressed Rodgers and Hammerstein with her musically trained voice, and was cast as the female lead in the film adaptation Oklahoma! in 1955. Other film musicals quickly followed, including Carousel (1956), April Love (1957), and The Music Man (1962), in which she was often typecast as a wholesome, kind character. However, she won a 1960 Academy Award for her performance in Elmer Gantry portraying a woman corrupted by the title character played by Burt Lancaster. Her character becomes a prostitute who encounters her seducer years later and reveals his true character. The director, Richard Brooks, had originally fought against her being in the movie, but after seeing her first scene, told her she would win an Oscar for her performance. She was reunited with Ron Howard (who had played her brother in The Music Man) in The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963). Jones landed the role of a lady who fell in love with the professor in Fluffy (1965). In her film career, she has worked with some of Hollywood's icons: Jimmy Stewart, Gene Kelly, Marlon Brando, James Cagney, Henry Fonda, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and director John Ford. The Partridge Family The Partridge Family In 1970, after turning down the role of Carol Brady on The Brady Bunch, a role that ultimately went to her best friend, Florence Henderson, Jones was the producers' first choice to audition for the lead role of Shirley Partridge in The Partridge Family, an ABC musical sitcom based loosely on the real-life musical family The Cowsills. The series focused on a young widowed mother whose five children form a pop-rock group after the entire family painted its signature bus to travel. She was convinced that the combination of music and comedy would be a surefire hit. Jones realized, however, that: The problem with Partridge—though it was great for me and gave me an opportunity to stay home and raise my kids—when my agents came to me and presented it to me, they said if you do a series and it becomes a hit show, you will be that character for the rest of your life and your film career will go into the toilet, which is what happened. But I have no regrets. During its first season, it became a hit and was screened in over 70 countries. Within months, Jones and her co-stars were pop culture television icons. Her real-life 20-year-old stepson David Cassidy, who was an unknown actor at the time, played Shirley Partridge's eldest son Keith and became a teen idol. The show also spawned a number of albums and singles by The Partridge Family, performed by David Cassidy and Shirley Jones. That same year, "I Think I Love You" reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 music chart, making Jones the second person, after Frank Sinatra, and the first woman to win an acting Oscar and also have a number-one hit on that chart, an achievement only matched by Cher and Barbra Streisand. The Partridge Family won a NARM award for the best-selling single of the year in 1970 for their hit "I Think I Love You". In 1971, The Partridge Family was nominated for a Grammy under the Best New Artist category. The series' run ended in 1974. Shirley Jones's friendship with David Cassidy had begun in the mid-to-late 1950s, when David was just six, after he learned about his father's divorce from his mother Evelyn Ward. Upon David's first meeting with Shirley before co-starring with her on The Partridge Family, he said, "The day he tells me that they're divorced, he tells me, 'We're remarried, and let me introduce you to my new wife.' He was thrilled when her first film, Oklahoma! (1955), had come out; and my dad took me to see it—I just see her, and I go, uh-oh, it doesn't really quite register with me, 'cause I'm in total shock, because I wanted to hate her, but the instant that I met her, I got the essence of her. She's a very warm, open, sweet, good human being. She couldn't have thawed it for me—the coldness and the ice—any more than she did." Shirley was shocked to hear her real-life stepson was going to audition for the role of Keith Partridge. David said, "At the auditions, they introduced me to the lead actress [Shirley Jones] 'cause they had no idea, they had no idea. So I said, 'What are you doing here?' She looked at me and said, 'What are you doing here?' And I said, 'Well, I'm reading for the lead guy.' I said, 'What are you doing here?' She said, 'I'm the mother!'" Cassidy discussed his relationship with his stepmother on the show: "She wasn't my mother, and I can be very open, and we can speak, and we became very close friends. She was a very good role model for me, watching the way, you know, she dealt with people on the set, and watching people revere her." Cassidy appeared on many shows alongside his stepmother, including A&E Biography, TV Land Confidential, and The Today Show, and he was one of the presenters of his stepmother's Intimate Portrait on Lifetime Television, and the reality show pilot In Search of the Partridge Family, where he served as co-executive producer. The rest of the cast also celebrated the 25th, 30th, and 35th anniversaries of The Partridge Family (although Cassidy was unavailable to attend the 25th anniversary in 1995 owing to other commitments). In addition, Jack Cassidy's death in 1976 drew Jones and Cassidy closer as Shirley's three children and stepson mourned their father. In 1979, Jones tried her hand at television for the second time, starring in the NBC show Shirley, which, like The Partridge Family, featured a family headed by a widowed mother, but the show failed to win ratings and was cancelled toward the middle of the season. Jones also played the "older woman" girlfriend of Drew Carey's character in several episodes of The Drew Carey Show, and reprised Shirley Partridge in a cameo in a 2000 episode of That '70s Show. She was also in the dramatic project There Were Times, Dear, in which she played a loyal wife whose husband is dying of Alzheimer's disease; she was nominated for an Emmy Award for this work. In February 1986, Jones unveiled her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Vine Street just around the corner from Hollywood Boulevard. In 1983, she appeared in a rare revival of Noël Coward's operetta, Bitter Sweet. In 2004, she returned to Broadway in a revival of 42nd Street, portraying diva Dorothy Brock opposite Patrick Cassidy, the first time a mother and son were known to star together on Broadway. In July 2005, Jones revisited the musical Carousel onstage in Massachusetts, portraying "Cousin Nettie". In July 2006, Jones received another Emmy Award nomination for her supporting performance in the television film Hidden Places. She was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild award for the same film but lost to Helen Mirren for Elizabeth I. She also appeared in Grandma's Boy (2006) as a nymphomaniac senior citizen. On November 16, 2007, she took the stage at the Ford Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, during the Oklahoma Centennial Spectacular concert that celebrated the state's 100th birthday. Jones sang the songs "Oklahoma!" and "People Will Say We're In Love" from the musical Oklahoma!. Jones and Patrick Cassidy in 2012 In early 2008, it was announced that Jones would play Colleen Brady on the long-running NBC soap opera Days of Our Lives. Jones guest-starred on ABC Family's short-lived show Ruby & The Rockits as David and Patrick's mother. In 2008, U.K. label Stage Door Records released the retrospective collection Then & Now featuring 24 songs from Jones's musical career, including songs from the films Oklahoma!, Carousel, and April Love. The album featured new recordings of songs including "Beauty and the Beast", "Memory", and a sentimental tribute to The Music Man. She had a recurring role as Burt Chance's mother in the Fox TV comedy series Raising Hope. In mid-2012, Jones played Mrs. Paroo, when her son Patrick played Harold Hill, in a California Musical Theatre revival of The Music Man. In 2014, Jones guest-starred on an episode of General Hospital as Mrs. McClain. 1955Oklahoma!Laurey Williams 1956CarouselJulie Jordan 1957April LoveLiz TempletonLaurel Award for Top Female Musical Performance (5th place) 1959Never Steal Anything SmallLinda CabotLaurel Award for Top Female Musical Performance (3rd place) 1959BobbikinsBetty Barnaby 1960Elmer GantryLulu BainsAcademy Award for Best Supporting Actress Laurel Award for Top Female Supporting Performance National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated-Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture 1960PepeSuzie Murphy 1961 Two Rode TogetherMarty Purcell 1962The Music ManMarian ParooLaurel Award for Top Female Musical Performance (3rd place) Nominated-Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy 1963The Courtship of Eddie's FatherElizabeth Martan 1963A Ticklish AffairAmy Martin 1964Dark PurposeKaren Williams 1964Bedtime StoryJanet Walker 1965FluffyJanice Claridge 1965The Secret of My SuccessMarigold Marido 1969The Happy EndingFlo HarriganReunited with her Elmer Gantry co-star Jean Simmons 1969El GolfoMary O'Hara 1970The Cheyenne Social ClubJenny 1979Beyond the Poseidon AdventureNurse Gina Rowe 1984TankLaDonna Carey 1999GideonElly Morton 2000The Adventures of Cinderella's DaughterFairy Godmother 2000Ping!Ethel Jeffries 2000Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the ThirteenthNurse Kervorkian 2002Manna from HeavenBunny 2004The Creature of the Sunny Side Up Trailer ParkCharlotte 2004Raising GeniusAunt Sis 2006Grandma's BoyGrace 2007Christmas Is Here AgainVictoria ClausVoice 2013Family WeekendGG 2013A Strange Brand of HappyMildred 2013Zombie NightNana 2014Waiting in the Wings: The MusicalBroadway Diva 2015On the Wing[citation needed]Grandma Ryburn 2016The Irresistible Blueberry FarmRuthHallmark Movies & Mysteries 2018Eco-Teens Save The WorldSenator Jeremy Ryburn's Mother Television edit 1950: Fireside Theatre (acting debut) 1952: Gruen Guild Playhouse 1956: Ford Star Jubilee 1956: Playhouse 90 1957: Lux Video Theatre 1957: The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom (guest) 1957: The United States Steel Hour 1958: DuPont Show of the Month 1959: Make Room for Daddy (as herself) 1964: Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre 1969: Silent Night, Lonely Night 1969: The Carol Burnett Show 1969: The Name of the Game 1970–74: The Partridge Family 1971: Curiosity Shop (Episode: The Curiosity Shop Special) 1973: The Girls of Huntington House 1975: The Family Nobody Wanted 1975: The Lives of Jenny Dolan 1975: Winner Take All 1977: McMillan & Wife 1977: Yesterday's Child 1978: Evening in Byzantium 1978: Who'll Save Our Children? 1979: A Last Cry for Help 1979–80: Shirley 1980: The Children of An Lac 1981: Inmates: A Love Story 1982: The Adventures of Pollyanna 1983/87: Hotel 1983: Hotel (pilot) 1983: The Love Boat 1988/90: Murder, She Wrote 1989: Charlie (unsold pilot) 1997: Dog's Best Friend 1998: Melrose Place 1998: The Drew Carey Show 1999: Sabrina the Teenage Witch 2000: That '70s Show (cameo) 2003: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit 2006: Hidden Places 2006: Monarch Cove 2008: Days of Our Lives 2009: Ruby & The Rockits 2011/14: Raising Hope (3 episodes) 2012: Good Luck Charlie (Episodes: "Welcome Home", "A Duncan Christmas")[33] 2012: Victorious (Episode: "Car, Rain, and Fire") 2013: Cougar Town 2013: Hot in Cleveland 2014: General Hospital 2014: Over the Garden Wall (voice) 2016: Childrens Hospital (cameo as herself) Stage edit 1953: South Pacific (Broadway) 1954: Me and Juliet (Chicago) 1956: Oklahoma! (European tour with Jack Cassidy) 1957: The Beggar's Opera (with Cassidy) 1959: Wish You Were Here! (Dallas State Fair Theater, with Cassidy) 1966: The Sound of Music (Westbury Music Fair) 1967: Wait Until Dark (with Cassidy) 1968: Maggie Flynn (Broadway, with Cassidy) 1972: The Marriage Band (with Cassidy) 1974: On a Clear Day You Can See Forever 1976: Show Boat 1977: The Sound of Music 1982: Bitter Sweet 1994: Love Letters (with Marty Ingels) 1994: The King and I 1994: A Christmas Carol 1995: Love Letters (with Marty Ingels) 2004: 42nd Street (Broadway, with Patrick Cassidy) 2005: Carousel 2012: The Music Man (Sacramento Music Circus, with Patrick Cassidy)

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